Vergessensfuge

Movies
2004-06-05
DE
Released
1h 8m
Drama

Production

Jon Jost Productions, ZKM Karlsruhe

Storyline

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation in 1945. The images are of young women, aged 20 - 30, who were guards at the camp - to say, compliant, obedient Germans doing as they were told to do.